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A power governments cannot suppress, Howard Zinn

eng

Includes bibliographical references (pages 272-274) and index

index present

non fiction

A power governments cannot suppress

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Howard Zinn

A collection of essays on American history, race, class, justice, and ordinary people who stand up to power. Howard Zinn approaches the telling of U.S. history from an active, engaged point of view, drawing upon untold histories to comment on the most controversial issues facing us today: government dishonesty, terrorism, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the loss of our liberties, immigration, and the responsibility of the citizen to confront power for the common good. This book is an invaluable post-9/11-era addition to the themes that run through Zinn's bestselling classic, A People's History of the United States.--From publisher description

If history is to be creative -- The ultimate betrayal -- Seattle: a flash of the possible -- Big government -- The forbidden word: class -- World War II: the good war -- Learning from Hiroshima -- Unsung heroes -- Tennis on the Titanic -- Killing people to "send a message" -- The double horror of 9/11 -- Afghanistan -- Pacifism and war -- The Boston Massacre -- Respecting the Holocaust -- Patriotism -- Henry David Thoreau -- Nationalism -- Land mines -- The Supreme Court -- Civil liberties during wartime -- Soldiers in revolt -- The coming end of the Iraq war -- The enemy is war -- Governments lie -- The long war -- Break-in for peace -- Philip Berrigan: holy outlaw -- Mississippi freedom summer -- Eugene V. Debs -- Protest literature -- Film and history -- Immigration nation -- Sacco and Vanzetti -- The optimism of uncertainty